Tabs
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: D MajorD
Difficulty: Intermediate
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Down South – Tom Petty
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Written by: Tom Petty
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Here’s my reading of the solo. It’s not that difficult to play even though
it is high up on the fretboard. There’s a lot of delay on this simple
melody (sounds like there’s some sort of “reverse” effect, too ). I’m
not much of an electric guitar player, so my tip is: play around with your
delay until it comes close ...
Many of the notes are triplets, which are a little difficult to write in
this format. Playing along to Petty’s recording might help to get the
timing right.
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D MajorD D MajorD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----------------|---------/12--12|
BB|----------------|----------------|
G+G|----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|----------------|
(... and a little more)
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|12h14-14-14-12-14--|------------17-17|
BB|-------------------|15---------------|
G+G|-------------------|-----------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|-----------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|-----------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|-----------------|
triplets
G+G D MajorD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|17-15-15-15-17-14|----------14--15|
BB|-----------------|----------------|
G+G|-----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|----------------|
triplets
G+G D MajorD
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|15----19-19--17-17-|17-----------17-15|
BB|-------------------|------------------|
G+G|-------------------|------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|------------------|
triplets
B minorBm A augmentedA A augmentedA
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|14----14-14-----|----------------|----------------|
BB|-----------17-15|17--------------|----------------|
G+G|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|
triplets